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Friday the 13th - Part 1

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Friday the 13th - Part 1 (1980)

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Reviews Counted: 32 Fresh: 22  Rotten:10 Average Rating: 5.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Synopsis:
Despite repeated warnings to stay away, a group of fun-loving but none-too-bright teenagers set out to reopen the eerie Camp Crystal Lake, which closed 20 years earlier after a series of bizarre and unexplained deaths. Now someone is lurking in the woods, spying on the happy campers, and... [More]
Despite repeated warnings to stay away, a group of fun-loving but none-too-bright teenagers set out to reopen the eerie Camp Crystal Lake, which closed 20 years earlier after a series of bizarre and unexplained deaths. Now someone is lurking in the woods, spying on the happy campers, and plotting a gory, grisly revenge on those who would disturb the camp's slumber. A horror classic that set the standard for slasher flicks of the 1980s. [Less]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram

Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Producer: Noel J. Cunningham, Steve Miner
Screenwriter: Ron Kurz

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 19, 1999

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1 Encoding
  • Keep Case
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Widescreen Anamorphic
  • Interactive Menus
  • Scene Selection

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A classic Bacon

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Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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It may be one of the most famous, but it's certainly not an original on which others are based.

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09/26/07 01:07 PM
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine
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Unsophisticated by today's standards perhaps, but still contains plenty to satisfy the dedicated gore-hound.

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09/26/07 01:05 PM
Channel 4 Film
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For all its shoddiness, the film manages, just barely, to achieve its ignoble goals -- it delivers what it promises.

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09/26/07 01:04 PM
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Makes not the slightest attempt to hide the outright theft of every one of its ideas from much better films.

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09/14/07 09:24 PM
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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Friday the 13th emerges not as an outstanding slasher film, but as a succinctly formulaic one.

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10/17/06 03:16 AM
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
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I say it's the worst.

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05/26/06 03:16 AM
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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A tame, poorly plotted serving of schlock, less horrific for its ketchup-smeared murders than for the bare-faced fashion in which it tries and fails to rip off Carpenter's Halloween in matters of style and construction.

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01/26/06 03:16 AM
Time Out
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Pure slasher goodness!

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10/11/05 01:27 AM
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum
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Classic but forgettable teen-camp slasher

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10/01/05 06:41 AM
Andreas Samuelson
Slasherpool
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Emanuel Levy
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Jake Euker
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07/29/05 02:34 AM
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily
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The whole film is one of the best arguments for resuming movie censorship to come along in years.

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03/07/05 03:45 AM
Joseph Litsch
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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12/21/04 11:41 AM
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)
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Hardly concerned with addressing the social and sexual anxieties summoned by Brian De Palma and Mario Bava in films like Carrie and Bay of Blood.

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09/25/04 09:22 AM
Ed Gonzalez
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06/10/04 07:57 PM
Sarah Chauncey
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01/24/04 02:42 PM
Spence D.
IGN Movies
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Suprisingly scary and atmospheric, especially compared to its garish sequels

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01/23/04 09:20 AM
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World
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It's a classic, for sure, just an awfully cheesy one.

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10/16/03 05:10 PM
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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